I'm posting this from an office PC.
Looks like I'll have to replace the modem on the desktop PC I've got on the boat. Everything else on it seems to be working well, except that it won't recognize the modem card.
Damn.
As I type this, the BP Amoco plant in Texas City, TX, only 10 miles away, burns furiously. Only forty minutes ago, four massive explosions rocked the plant.
Casualties, if any, are quite unknown at this moment. The plant employs about six or seven hundred people, but I doubt if all of 'em were on duty on the swing-shift.
It's live on the local news right now, and the video is spectacular. And fearsome.
And speaking of fearsome, my Dad had a small stroke last night. Per the latest report, the only noticeable effect is a slight loss of peripheral vision in his left eye. And, that's been slowly improving.
Sometimes, life just piles on and piles on.
Prayers, for all at BP Amoco, in Texas City and for my Dad, are in order, and will be greatly appreciated.
You know I don't comment often, and you also know why.
Life is ALWAYS throwing us curves. We always make it through. Things WILL get better.
You're in my prayers, as well as your dad and step mom.
XOXO
Posted by: Linda | March 30, 2004 at 08:46 PM
Hope your Dad is better and recovers quickly,and your step Mom gets through this as well,Jim,she will pull from your strength,and I know you have it in you.
Take care and check 6
From Deep in East Texas
Posted by: Airboss | March 30, 2004 at 10:15 PM
Tell your Pappy that the Rivrdog and all the Right Whales of the Blog-ocean are pulling for him.
Re: the Modem: Call your fone co. Bellsouth or whatever, and get a service techie, and tell him/her that the modem is OK, but won't pick up the phone line. Their response will be to run you through a technical set-up of the modem, which will probably cure your problem. I'd do it with you, but I've only done it once myself, and am not wizard-rated on that.
Unless that fire was provably set by Al-Q, it's very bad news for Bush.
I'm sure we'll be reminded about the Amoco plant fire in the economic news tomorrow when the word triggers a 25 cent/gallon increase in gasoline futures, and we'll be paying that at the pump within days even though Amoco sells no fuel here in the Northwest.
Red. Curtain. Descending. Must. Dissolve. It. With. Scotch.
Posted by: Rivrdog | March 30, 2004 at 10:28 PM
John Two-Hawks thinks the unfortunate things of this first quarter of the new year may be due to the "buffalo calving moon." Bad luck does seem to be ubiquitous lately among bloggers tho, doesn't it?
Posted by: Indigo | March 30, 2004 at 11:03 PM
Damn, Jim...it's tough commenting on this.
I'm in the same boat (without the cat--dad hates 'em).
Posted by: loiq | March 31, 2004 at 02:10 AM
Incoming prayers.
Posted by: Yellowlegs | March 31, 2004 at 07:41 AM
Praying for your dad and step-mom and you.
Take care.
Posted by: Tina | March 31, 2004 at 09:02 AM
Jim, I'm very sorry to hear about yoru father. I can sympathize because I was told yesterday that my father has been diagnosed with bladder cancer. Life is piling it on for me, too, because I'm right in the middle of moving to France for a 3 year expatriate assignment.
Posted by: Jack | March 31, 2004 at 11:49 AM
Sending prayers your way.
Posted by: dragonfly jenny | March 31, 2004 at 11:58 AM
Jim:
I'm praying really hard your dad continues to improve. Strength to all of you.
My offer of tech help still stands. Let me know if there's anything I can try to help with.
Posted by: Light & Dark | March 31, 2004 at 05:22 PM
Prayers and good thoughts!
Posted by: Da Goddess | April 10, 2004 at 12:22 AM